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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Czarnik is actually a decent comp for Phillips and the Flames were actually the team that decided to give him a shot oddly.
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The "re-building Flames" 14-15 to 18-19 were way more willing to give rookies, and younger players a shot on the roster. More smaller players got a shot too.
The "???? Flames" from 19-20 to 21-22 have really started to default to giving any open roster spot to veterans. Size has become more of a priority in these seasons as well.
IMO the Flames really mis-read what happened in that 18-19 playoff season to Colorado.
The takeaway they had coming out of that series (and Treliving has said this publically) was that they needed to add more veterans, be bigger, and harder to play against.
Somehow they came out of that series thinking the problem was they were pushed around, when really the problem was that Colorado was the much, much faster team, and with the addition of Makar were the more skilled team.
And they outskated and outskilled the Flames in that series, especially the top guys.